Washington Post rediscovers the root cause of crime

You can read the entire column by Richard Cohen here, but this morsel from that column that pretty much sums things up:

But the latest crime statistics strongly suggest that bad times do not necessarily make bad people. Bad character does.

Isn't it great when people on the Left are mystified by the obvious?

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson